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I. VAN HAGEN.

, LANTERN FRAME.

No. 405,629. Patented June 18, 1889.

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ISAAC VAN HAGEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN OR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO JAMES H. RAYMOND, TRUSTEE, OF SAME PLACE.

LANTERN-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,629, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed October 15, 1888. Serial No. 288,172. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, RAM) VAN HAGEN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lantern Frames, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in improvements in the vertical wires or ribs of lantern-frames, and especially relates to the fastening thereof IO to the oil-pot holder.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a pei spective view of my invention as applied to open-bottom lanterns, and Fig. 2 is a separate view of my vertical rib as applied thereto.

Fig. 3 is a view of one form of the application of my invention to the oil-pot holder,

and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the application of my invention to the base or lowest horizontal rib of an open-bottom lantern.

A A A &c., are the vertical ribs, through which pass the horizontal ribs 13 B As shown, the vertical ribs are continued below the oil-pot holder C, to form with a horizontal rib B an open base.

One object of my invention is to so attach a vertical rib to the oil-pot holder as that if the solder which fastens them together shall be melted or worn olt still the oilpot holder will nevertheless be held to the lanternframe,

0 and will hold the lantern-frame together in proper position. For that purpose I put slots into the oil-pot holder C and construct my vertical rib with lugs c, bent to a right angle to the plane of the vertical rib. The bent lug 3 5 o of each rib is inserted in the slot provided for it in the oil'pot holder, the rib is turned to a ra c lial position, and the horizontal ribs then inserted. By the insertion of the horizontal ribs the vertical ribs are secured in 40 their radial position, and hence are locked to the oil-pot holder by the lugs c. The whole is then dipped in melted solder, which secures all in place, forming a frame of very great strength.

My invention is peculiarly advantageous for open-bottom lanterns having vertical guards rectangular in cross-section, although it is not essential to my invention that the vertical guards should be of any particular cross-section throughout their length.

In open-bottom lanterns, to prevent them from marring or catching upon the support upon which they are placed, and for other reasons which are apparent, it is desirable that the lantern should reston the lower ring B rather than on the ends of the vertical ribs.

The attachment of my vertical guard to an open-bottom lantern is clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The vertical rib A, Fig. 2, has its lower end rounded and a hole a very near the end, say within one-sixteenth of an inch. The lower rib or base B, Fig. 4, has a notch 17 of corresponding depth on its under side, and when all is in proper position the metal of the lower end of the vertical rib A is driven into said notch b, so as to be flush with the under side of the lower rib B. Thus, either with or without immersion in melted tin or solder, a junction is made of great strength, while the lower edge of the lantern is smooth and is unbroken by projecting points.

The construction of vertical ribs, (preferably of rectangular cross-section) herein described, for securing the lantern-frame first to the oil-pot holder and its dependencies, or, 75 second, to the base of an open-bottom lantern, and preferably to both, constitutes an integral frame structure which in service is preserved, and is not disintegrated by wear or by heat.

I claim- The combination, in a lantern-frame, of vertical ribs of rectangular cross-section,l1ori zontal ribs passing through the vertical ribs, an oil-pot holder having slots corresponding 85 to the vertical ribs, and lugs bent at right angles to the body of said ribs and adapted to enter said slot-s, as described.

ISAAC VAN I-IAGEN.

lVitnesses:

WARD W. WILLITs, WM. S. HAMM. 

